the big screen. The film won over fifty audience and jury awards at international film festivals and was followed up by two sequels, ' (2009) and ' (2010), which he directed and produced respectively. He moved on to writing and directing Germany's first major adventure film shot entirely in 3D, Vicky and the Treasure of the Gods, which debuted at No. 1 in the German box office.

In 2014, he directed his first English-language feature ''Love, Rosie''